Is This The Future of Sports Performance Drinks and Muscle Mass Optimizers Smart Waters and Diet Shakes
Is This The Future of Sports Performance Drinks and Muscle Mass Optimizers Smart Waters and Diet Shakes?
Sports Performance beverages and Sports Supplements have exploded in popularity over the last decade. You can find sports drinks in every retail food store in the country. Gas stations have energy drinks sitting by the cash register. Once confined to the fringes of the food and drink market, functional beverages have vaulted to the front of the line. Sports Supplements have become big business, with Fortune 500 drink manufacturers—once solely known for making sodas—leading the charge.
The recent sales surge of nutrient-enhanced waters as well as Sports Supplements and energy drinks belies one fact: while these products are relatively new, the concept of functional beverages is as old as time. Sports Performance Supplements—defined as supplements that provide more than enhanced health and flavor—have been a revered staple in every civilization. The unfortunate truth is this: today’s mass-marketed Sports Performance Supplements have little in common with the healthy foods our ancestors consumed.
Where Sports Supplements are concerned, we’ve lost our way. Time—and greed—have ruined the best of intentions.
Perhaps the most interesting twist in the evolution of Sports Supplements is how they came to be. Thousands of years ago, “Super foods” existed.
And there’s the rub. When compared to what passes for Sports Performance Supplements today, even the nutrient-enhanced waters, sports drinks and energy drinks—it’s easy to see we’ve lost our way.
The Right Minerals and electrolytes are defined as substances, usually minerals, which contain free ions that make them electrically conductive. Our bodies are finely tuned electrical systems, and electrolytes are depleted when you perspire. It’s important for anyone who leads an active lifestyle to replace those electrolytes.
However, you want to make sure you are replacing them with the right electrolyte minerals. The minerals in Organic Sports Performance Supplements are bound to organic substances in the superfood itself and they are literally a part of it. Contrast this with minerals taken from rocks or are found in their salt forms, which are inorganic and not bound to any organic substance. Research proves these inorganic minerals are not the best form of electrolytes for the body since they are not a normal part of our food chain.
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How does drinking high quality alkaline ionized water improve your health part 2
How does drinking high quality alkaline ionized water improve your health part 2
Acclaimed Scientist Dr. Robert Young – Author for the PH Miracle, Talks on the value of Alkaline PH Ionizer Water for Disease and Cancer Free Health Vitality.
Dr. Mercola, an accomplished Alternative Health Doctor and peer of mine in Holistic Health Research discusses PH Alkaline Ionizer Water Systems and their benefits with Houston Tomasz. The conversation covers the Pros and Cons of various water ionizers. This is due to the wide spectrum of quality and PH generation ability in the Water Ionizer industry.
Dr. Mercola and Houston Tomasz in part 2 of this revealing discussion on PH Alkaline Ionizer Water Systems and the Pros and Cons of the wide variety systems available. In General – You get what you pay for…
Some Words of Advice on PH Alkaline Ionizer Water Systems ~
Do remember 1 thing – There are PH Alkaline Ionizer Water Systems out there costing $4,000.00 and up that do not deliver the quality I personally recommend. So the priciest in this case, is not the best. There is a lot of junk out there also. I know and I almost bought one that cost a bit less. Then I looked at the Specs. The exotic materials and computer components do not come cheap… An analogy is a True Diamond Ring – does Not cost $149.00 Make sense?
I have done extensive research into the PH Alkaline Water Systems available on the market today. If you are serious about getting a PH Alkaline Ionizer Water System for yourself and your family, expect to spend $2,495.00 and up on the specific brand I recommend. If you are interested – Call me personally at 407-745-1699 and I will get the best one out to you based on your budget and specific needs.
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How does drinking high quality alkaline ionized water improve your health part 1
How does drinking high quality alkaline ionized water improve your health?
Today, we want to share some quick tips to make it easy to incorporate drinking water into your life if you’re not already in the habit.
How much is enough? The rule of thumb is 8×8 or eight eight-ounce glasses a day, but we recommend that as an absolute minimum.
The Institute of Medicine has determined that the average man should drink three liters (about 13 cups) per day and the average woman 2.2 liters, or about 9 cups. However, if you are overweight, active physically or sweat a lot from living in a hot climate or other reasons, you should drink even more.
Thirteen cups a day can seem like a tall order but with these tips you can do it effortlessly!
1) Start the day with two giant glasses of water before eating breakfast- your body has been using water in its various processes throughout the night and will welcome the replenishment!
2) That could equal about 4 cups, and you’re already ¼ the way there on your daily water intake. It has the added benefit of clearing out your system since you’ll be drinking the water on an empty stomach. If you suffer from constipation, try this before anything else, it works wonders
3) Keep a glass of water or water bottle at your desk or workplace
4) If you keep water handy, you can sip throughout the day. You will feel more refreshed by doing this than by relying on coffee to get you through the day! Staying adequately hydrated prevents fatigue and keeps you sharp.
5) Bring your alkaline, ionized water to work in a BPA free water bottle. BPA is a toxic substance found in some bottles. You can research BPA free bottles on the internet, I recommend this water bottle which is both BPA free and is insulated, so it’s suitable for Hot Beverages as well..
Thermos Nissan FBB1000 34-Ounce Stainless-Steel Vacuum Insulated Briefcase Bottle
6) Cut down on coffee, caffeinated tea, and soft drinks.
7) These can cause dehydration. If you do drink any caffeinated drinks, have a glass of water right after.
8 Drink a glass of water to every glass of another beverage
9) Bring a large water bottle with you and try to drink it on your way to work. If you don’t finish it on the way there, finish it on the way home!
10) Don’t drink soda. Diet Soda is ever worse for your health!
11) Check the color of your urine; it should be clear or nearly clear. If it is too dark you need to up your water intake!
Developing a Taste for Water
Maybe you are a big soda or juice drinker and the idea of a glass of water seems totally bland and unappealing to you. Here are some tips to develop your taste for water, so you can start giving your body more of what it needs.
1) Water ionizer owners agree that their machines produce superior tasting water, so get yourself some healthy antioxidant filled water from a water ionizer to start your water habit.
2) Remember Pavlov’s training experiments on dogs? Even if you don’t you can condition yourself to drink more water by looking at a pleasant image, listening to music you like, or thinking of a special person every time you drink water. That way drinking water will elicit peaceful and happy thoughts in you!
3) Try adding some lemon or lime to add some kick to your agua.
4) Cut out sugary drinks altogether, at least for a little while. Drinking water after a super-sweet juice could leave your taste buds feeling unsatisfied. After you get to liking the taste of water and drinking ample amounts, introduce your old drinks back in, in moderation, if you’d like. You might find they are even too sweet for you with your newly acquired taste for water!
Can You Have Too Much of a Good Thing?
Is there such thing as drinking too much water? Yes, drinking large amounts of water could lead to water intoxication if it upsets the balance of electrolytes. This is normally only found in infants and athletes. As long as you are drinking water steadily throughout the day you should be ok! It is recommended not to drink more than 1 to 1.5 liters (2 to 3 pints) per hour.
We hope you enjoyed these tips and are incorporating them into your daily routine!
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There is Nothing that Creates More Anxiety and Fear of the Unknown Than Being Told – You Have Breast Cancer part 6
There is Nothing that Creates More Anxiety and Fear of the Unknown Than Being Told – You Have Breast Cancer part 6
After that, I was sufficiently appalled, incensed, angered – I mean, you name the emotion I had – that I knew that something had to be done. I mean something had to be done. I have a lot of resources. I’m blessed with those resources – friends that actually work in the cancer industry. A son that works at MD Anderson who is a very known biostatistician that I highly respect and adore. It’s like, okay guys, you got to help me figure out a way out of this because we just cannot have people, women especially particularly with breast cancer survive and live these long lives with these side effects because the side effects do not go away. You’re not curing cancer with this. I spent the next two years – I mean, I get up in the morning and I’m on my scientific papers and I read them and I download them and I call people. I talk to people. I read about all kinds of alternative treatments.
On February 12, 2007 – this day will go down in my memory forever – I went to the doctor and was called based on some tests that I had osteoporosis. I said, “Why? I’m not heavy. I workout every day. I do all these good things.” She says, “Maybe you have a vitamin D deficiency.” I said, “What’s that?” I went home back to work for me which was researching what could be done about this. I still apologize to my friends now saying it took me two hours before I keyed in vitamin D and cancer but it did. I just decided to see what’s out there. And to this day, I get goose bumps thinking about what I saw. It was Dr. Cedric Garland from the UC San Diego…
DM: Which is where you’re from.
CB: It’s where I’m from. Morris Cancer Center had just published a paper saying that the risk of breast cancer could be cut by 50% if people had vitamin D serum levels – this is a blood level of how much vitamin D you’ve got – somewhere about 40 to 50 nanograms per milliliter. I just sat there and looked at that and I started crying which is kind of like, this can’t be true. I have friends at UCSD of course. I picked up the phone and I said, “Is this guy a flake? This is unreal.”
DM: It can’t be.
CB: It can’t be. I’m a very skeptical scientist. She says, “Oh no Carole, he is not a flake. He’s been doing this research for 30 years.” I said, “What? Thirty years, and I’m just finding out about it?” She says, “At this point in time, he’s really very depressed.” I said, “Why on earth is he depressed?” She said, “Because he thinks nobody is listening.” Can you imagine that? I said out loud I’m listening. I knew that I had some wherewithal to get something going – starting businesses and running stuff like that.
DM: It’s one of your experiences and your expertise.
CB: Yes. So in May of that year (2007) there was one of the best cancer conferences I have been to sponsored by the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland on vitamin D and cancer.
For two solid days, I listened to reports by scientists from all over the world talking about vitamin D and cancer. Not all of them were things to jump up and down about but there was so much there that was so positive from what they were doing with rats, from what they were doing with all kinds of experiments that at the end of the session, when the session leader asked a group of scientist, what’s next? I was waiting for the action item. The action item that they had was – we need to do more research.
I sat there for a minute. I was an invited guest. I’m not a vitamin D researcher. I listened to people talk a minute and they had these absolutely beautiful microphones coming up on the table to everybody and if you wanted to speak you just press the button. To this day, I swear the microphone little button throbbed and I pressed it and I stood up. I only had a very few words. I just asked them, where is your sense of urgency? And I sat down.
The meeting was over and almost immediately, I had fully half of the scientists in that room come up to me and say, how can we help? Talk about other goose bumps. It’s like here is a group of people who got a message and they want to get it out and they can’t get it out. It wasn’t just Dr. Garland. I said at that point in time I said, I don’t know. I don’t know what the message is yet. So Leo and I took off in our motor home and did a four-month trip.
DM: That’s your husband.
CB: Yes of course. Leo Baggerly, my delightful husband and partner. Leo is a physicist – that’s how I met him by the way – and researcher as well. He currently works with the kinetics of vitamin D. It’s easy to get excited about this project.
DM: Excellent.
CB: We took off in our motor home to go meet with the scientists around the country and in Canada to see what is the message. If I’m going to take on a public health project, what do we need to say? At that time, as there is now, this ongoing stuff about what dosage should I take was still the same which is like, shall I take 2000 IU? Shall I take 20,000 IU? What should I do? But that wasn’t what they come up with.
Every single one of them agreed. Every one of them, we now have 40 on this panel, that the focus should be on the serum level not the dosage. The reason being, if you focusontheserumlevel,youcanhavepeopletakewhateverittakestogetthere. It does take something different for everybody. Everybody’s human body just responds differently. So we had our message. Our message for entire campaign was get your serum level to 40 to 60 nanograms per milliliter. That’s it. That’s really it.
DM: It’s a good action item.
CB: With that level, we really can reduce the incidence of cancer, heart disease, you name it. You get in that band of demonstrable evidence saying that you can prevent diseases. That’s how I got into it.
DM: Thank you for that explanation.
CB: It’s kind of long.
DM: No. It’s important to have a frame. It may not be obvious even from your explanation because you may appear to be a lay person so to speak but since you have committed essentially nearly four years now full time and interacting with your panel of experts which are some of the leading experts in vitamin D in the world.
CB: They are indeed.
DM: You’re doing this full time and you’re obviously very intelligent. You have an academic background. So it doesn’t take too long to get up to speed. You really do have a level of knowledge that is extraordinary, really at an expert level. We’re delighted to have you here and share your wisdom in that.
There is Nothing that Creates More Anxiety and Fear of the Unknown Than Being Told – You Have Breast Cancer part 5
There is Nothing that Creates More Anxiety and Fear of the Unknown Than Being Told – You Have Breast Cancer part 5
A Special Interview with Carole Baggerly By Dr. Mercola
DM: Dr. Joseph Mercola CB: Carole Baggerly
Introduction:
DM: Welcome everyone. This is Dr. Mercola. Today, I am joined with Carole Baggerly who is the director and founder of an organization called Grassroots Health which is primarily focused on educating and creating more awareness about the importance and the value of vitamin D and also developing and substantiating some research to support the use of that.
Carole, you got a really fascinating history personally and academically that sort of suits you really quite well for this role. I’m wondering if you can share with our viewers what your history is that makes you so appropriately suited for this task?
CB: As you were saying that the funny thought that came to mind most immediately was that which makes me most suited for this task is actually having been a mother taking care of all the things that one cares about with children and the intensity and the drive. Academically, I have a background in physics and mathematics.
DM: Hardcore science.
CB: I spent about four years running my own business in the aerospace industry. We were a software interface to help the aerospace companies become more efficient with doing business with their suppliers and their trading partners. That plays an enormous role in this because part of what we’re doing with the whole vitamin D project is running a massive information technology study which I know how to do. Also, there is an awful lot of interfaces with experts and people who have vested interest in making this work.
DM: Just as a little side tangent, what was your specific role in that aerospace company?
CB: I ran it. I owned it. DM: So you’re responsible for all the moving parts making sure they worked.
CB: Yes. It’s still in existence. It’s a leading aerospace supplier of electronic data interchange services.
DM: Terrific.
CB: It still is.
DM: So you were running your business and doing very well and very happy and providing good value for many people including the aerospace industry and then something happened personally I would assume that redirected your efforts into this area.
CB: Actually in 2001 I had retired. I had started actually another business which both my husband and I have a big interest in which is various incendiary peace related activities and mediation. In 2005, I had breast cancer and that changed the world significantly. Would you like me to tell about that?
DM: Absolutely. Just to sort of put a frame on this. I mean you’re a woman and most of the people viewing this would be women in the United States and breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer in the Western world.
CB: It is. DM: It’s a significant issue that many people watching this today are struggling with or
have or will have. CB: Unfortunately. DM: I’m sure they will be interested in your experience.
CB: I was diagnosed with breast cancer in February of 2005. I had treatment for breast cancer. I had a mastectomy. I had radiation and I had chemo. I had the whole ball of wax.
DM: Cut, poison, burn.
CB: My total conclusion at that time or even during that time was that it was barbaric. I had no idea – I mean, back again kind of put that peace thing in mind. All of a sudden I realized the violence that was being done to my own body. That was just like – this is unacceptable.
One of the interesting things there just short whatever is I had a tumor that was literally 5 cm. That is an enormous sized tumor which was not detected by a mammogram. It was only much later that the doctor happened to tell me that well, you know, there are a lot of women that have dense breast and we don’t get that image with the mammogram and it turns out that those women with dense breasts occupy maybe 40% to 50% of all tissues that they look at. So it’s enormous.
DM: Just about half. CB: It’s about half.
DM: That is 2-1/2 inches which is bigger than a golf ball.
CB: That’s about 2-1/2 inches. It was enormous. It was a stage 3 cancer which is a sizeable progression up the ladder of severity. The surgery was not too bad. The mastectomy was pretty bad but regardless, that wasn’t the thing. I was doing the chemo. And then at one point during the chemo I was taking a particular drug that was so painful. It was Paclitaxel and it caused extreme peripheral neuropathy which is pain in the hands and the feet. I couldn’t walk. I couldn’t feel. I just cried because my leg hurt so much.
I talked to the doctor about it and he says, you have only got two more treatments of that left. I did one and I said, I’m not going to do the next one, and he walked out of the room. That was my first score about the mental investment of a doctor in the treatment as opposed to the patient. I was appalled. I asked the nurse to send him back because I had some questions and she said, write them down. That was just kind of like shocking, stunning, I mean, just like hello. That was one. I did not take the last treatment because it was too painful and because I had also read that from time to time those side effects don’t go away. That’s one of the things you also learn as you go through those.
I then chose to do the radiation therapy. That is an angle they have certainly improved it so it doesn’t quite go head on but still I had no thyroid left. One day, I went home and I literally had sunburn on my back so you know the radiation is going all the way through. On my last session of that, I was literally laying there exposed bleeding on the table. I also did not have the full extent of radiation treatment.
Can Consuming Organic Food Grass Fed Beef and Cultured Milk Transform Your Life From Sickness and Disease Jordan Rubin Interview part 9
Can Consuming Organic Food Grass Fed Beef and Cultured Milk Transform Your Life From Sickness and Disease Jordan Rubin Interview part 9
I tell this gut-wrenching story because we have no idea what the future will bring. Kingdoms rise, and kingdoms fall. The United States of America has been a great civilization—the shining city upon a hill—since we fought for our independence after our country was formed on July 4, 1776. I realize that I would have never been born if Lady Liberty hadn’t opened her arms to my grandmother back at Ellis Island, so I am eternally grateful.
Now I have my own family to look after and care for. I married Nicki in 1999, and we have three children ages seven and under, so following through on the deep desire in my heart to produce my own food and provide places of refuge is very real to me. Whenever Nicki and I talked through my vision, she was on board, especially as we discussed what was happening to our nation in recent years.
We felt as though the scales were coming off our eyes and could clearly see the world around us. We agreed that our economy is based on paper money that is backed by absolutely nothing, and most of us use a piece of plastic to buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have from someone who doesn’t even own them. With federal deficits flying through the roof and state governments straining to balance their budgets, it all seems like a house of cards.
If history is a guide, it reminds us that it wouldn’t take much—a run on the banks, a stock market collapse, a cataclysmic event or, God forbid, a major terrorist attack on a U.S. city—to see it all start tumbling to the ground.
What is Wealth?
As God spoke to me about Joseph, I was prompted to do a study in Scripture about what He considers wealth. I read that Abraham grew wealthy with cattle, gold, and silver. Isaac planted a field and reaped a hundredfold harvest. Jacob, through his wisdom and discernment, grew his flocks and herds. Job was blessed “twice as much” later in life with sheep, camels, and donkeys. God describes His own wealth in Psalms by saying, He owns the cattle on a thousand hills. After reading that, I realized that it probably would be a good idea to own cattle on a hill or two myself. I also knew I needed to find sustainable
sources of water since water is even more important for life than food. I began a nationwide search to find the right land while crisscrossing the country on a forty-five foot tour bus that was part of a six-month promotional tour for my book, Perfect Weight America, during the first half of 2008.
We looked at properties in Idaho, California, and North Carolina but didn’t find what we were looking for. In the fall of 2009 after a long search, we found just the right place—seven different pieces of property totaling 8,600 acres in southern Missouri’s Ozark mountains and north Georgia’s Blue Ridge mountains.
Talk about being “all in.”
The best part about my God-given vision is that the dream to produce the world’s healthiest foods and beverages, to provide water, food, shelter, clothing and protection to people who need it most, to offer places of refuge and best of all hope to a lost and dying world, isn’t mine alone.
This is my invitation for you to join me in my mission to transform the health of this nation and world, one life at a time.
You, too, can live beyond organic.
- Glen
Glen B. Stewart
Healer 2.0
Can Consuming Organic Food Grass Fed Beef and Cultured Milk Transform Your Life From Sickness and Disease Jordan Rubin Interview part 8
Can Consuming Organic Food Grass Fed Beef and Cultured Milk Transform Your Life From Sickness and Disease Jordan Rubin Interview part 8
Pharaoh believed everything Joseph said and put him in charge of all the land in Egypt as well as the food storage program.
During the seven years of “plenty,” Joseph made sure that enough food was set aside to see Egypt through the coming famine. Sure enough, when the rains didn’t fall and crops failed throughout the entire known world, people came from all countries to buy grain from Joseph—including Joseph’s brothers.
When the contingent from Canaan arrived, they were led into a palace chamber where Joseph heard requests for food and grain. When his brothers walked in, Joseph recognized them, but they didn’t know who he was because it had been more than a decade since they had seen him.
The brothers all bowed to him because he was an important person—just as Joseph had dreamed years earlier.
After a few meetings with his brothers, Joseph couldn’t keep it in any longer. “I am Joseph!” he said. “Is my father alive?”
But his brothers couldn’t answer him because they were afraid.
“Come here,” Joseph said. “I am your brother, the one you sold. Do not worry, and do not be angry at yourselves for selling me because God has put me here to save people from starving.” He also said one of my favorite lines in the Bible: “What you meant for bad, to hurt me, God has meant for good!”
How is that for an unbelievable attitude?
So Joseph sent his brothers back with food and provisions, and eventually his father, his brothers, and their families came to live in Egypt with Joseph, where they had all the food that they needed.
Not only did Joseph’s provision save the lives in his family, but there is evidence in Scripture that this worldwide famine caused starvation among people everywhere and the only ones who survived were those who obtained food through Joseph by his God-given wisdom.
God used Joseph to save the world. Today, we believe that the story of Joseph was a foreshadowing of the One who was to come that would bring spiritual salvation to the world, Jesus our savior.
Jordan, you need to be a Joseph.
What did that mean?
When I first heard that voice in the stillness of my heart, I went back and reread the story of Joseph in the last thirteen chapters of Genesis. I was struck by the wisdom that God gave Joseph to store up food during seven years of plenty in advance of the seven years of famine that were coming. I’m sure that many people in Pharaoh’s court thought Joseph was nuts, but because of his foresight and trust in God that he was given the right interpretation of Pharaoh’s dream, there would be enough to eat in the land of Egypt and in Joseph’s own family. The future nation of Israel would be saved.
So the Lord told me to be a Joseph, a person who could provide food, hydration, shelter, and protection to people in coming years.
I’m thirty-six years old, and those of us in Generation X don’t think much about impending doom or the end of the world. We have known only economic prosperity throughout our short lives, although the Great Recession of the last few years have given many of us pause that the U.S. economy will never be as vibrant as the decade from the late-1990s to 2008.
The point is that no one is immune from great hardship and difficulties, and those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. In fact, those in my own family experienced great tragedy at the hands of outside forces.
My late grandmother, Rose, was born in 1922 in a pastoral Polish village that could have doubled as the set for Fiddler on the Roof. She was the youngest of seven children born to Gidalia and Simma Catz.
Her Jewish family faced growing harassment during that uneasy era following World War I, and then Adolf Hitler was elected chancellor of Germany in 1933. He moved quickly to pass repressive anti-Jewish laws—and persecution of Jews intensified elsewhere throughout Europe.
Amid this hostile environment, Rose’s family talked about fleeing Poland. Fortunately for them, there was still time to get out. Thirteen-year-old Rose joined her parents and several siblings and immigrated in 1935 to the United States, where the family settled in Queens, New York. They were among the last wave of European Jews to arrive in America prior to World War II.
Two of my great-aunts—my grandmother’s oldest sisters, Sonya and Dora— were already married with their own families and felt they didn’t need to come to America. They had husbands and jobs, and they believed their government would protect them from the likes of Hitler.
After the war, we learned what happened to Sonya and Dora as well as their families. During the Nazi blitzkrieg that swept Poland in 1939, they were rounded up by the SS and paraded through the streets along with other Jewish families. Then the children—screaming with fright—were separated from their parents and shot before their horrified eyes. Next, the women were ordered to gather, and they were gunned down in front of their husbands.
And then all the men stood shoulder to shoulder in front of the machine guns.
It’s hard to believe that such inhumanity could happen, but this massacre—the forerunner of Hitler’s “Final Solution” for European Jewry—happened less than seventy-five years ago. In the annals of time, this is a blink of an eye.
Can Consuming Organic Food Grass Fed Beef and Cultured Milk Transform Your Life From Sickness and Disease Jordan Rubin Interview part 7
Can Consuming Organic Food Grass Fed Beef and Cultured Milk Transform Your Life From Sickness and Disease Jordan Rubin Interview part 7
I’m Jewish, and one of my favorite stories in the Tenach, or Old Testament as we call it today, is about Joseph. It’s one of the great stories in history.
Joseph was born in Canaan many centuries ago—long before Moses or Jesus came to this earth. He was the eleventh of twelve sons born to Jacob and the son of the love of Jacob’s life, Rachel.
Joseph must have been something special because his father clearly favored him over his older brothers and showed everyone how he felt by giving Joseph an elegant robe “of many colors.”
Jacob’s favoritism of Joseph caused jealousy in the family, and his older brothers didn’t react well. They barely spoke to Joseph and let it be known that they hated him with a passion. They grumbled among themselves and couldn’t say a kind word about him.
One day, when Joseph was in his late teens, he told his brothers about a strange dream he had.
“Guess what, guys? Last night I dreamt we were tying up bunches of grain out in the field when suddenly my bunch stood up while all of yours gathered around and bowed to mine.”
The brothers looked at each other in disgust, but Joseph continued. “Then I had another dream that the sun, moon, and eleven stars bowed down to me.”
“Who do you think you are?” one of his older brothers said. “Do you think that you are better than all of us? Do you think that we would ever bow down to you?”
This made the brothers dislike Joseph even more.
A few days later, Jacob asked Joseph to run an errand for him—check on his brothers out in the fields, which were quite a distance away.
When the brothers saw Joseph approaching, they hatched a plan to kill him. But Reuben, the oldest brother, calmed the hotheads down. “Let’s not kill him,” he said. “Just throw him in a well out here in the field.” Reuben suggested this because he was secretly planning to come back and rescue Joseph when the other brothers had left for the day.
Joseph had a rude reception upon his arrival. His brothers grabbed him, yanked off his beautiful robe, and threw him into the empty well. A little while later, a band of Ishmaelite traders passed through the fields, saying they were on their way to Egypt, where they planned to sell their goods.
“Why don’t we sell Joseph to these people?” said one of the brothers. “That way we never have to see him again, but we don’t have to kill him.”
The other brothers liked the idea, and Reuben wasn’t there to stop them. So Joseph was placed on the auction block, and off he went—hands and feet bound—to Egypt. Once there, Joseph found out that he belonged to an important man named Potiphar, an assistant to the Pharaoh of Egypt.
Meanwhile, back at home, the rest of the brothers had to create a storyline about what happened to Joseph since his parents—especially his father, Jacob—would be worried sick about him.
One of the brothers took Joseph’s beautiful robe, dipped it in animal blood, and returned to Jacob. When the father saw this, he cried out, “Some animal has killed my son!” Then he fell to his knees in tears, and he was inconsolable for days.
What happened to Joseph? Well, he started out as a slave, but the Lord was with him and no matter where Joseph was placed, he chose to do what was right. So Potiphar made him his helper and put him in charge of everything he owned.
Things were looking better for Joseph, but then he got royally messed with when Potiphar’s wife accused him of making unwanted advances towards her. It was her word against his, and she won—despite the horrible lie she told. Joseph was thrown into prison and languished there for years until one day when Pharaoh heard that Joseph had an uncanny ability to interpret dreams. Pharaoh had a crazy dream that he couldn’t figure out, and nobody could explain it to him.
Joseph was brought before Pharaoh, who asked him, “Can you understand dreams?” “I can’t, but the God I serve gives me the wisdom,” Joseph replied. So Pharaoh described his troubling dream, which Joseph immediately explained. “God is warning you,” he began. “There will be seven years where nothing will grow and there won’t be food for anyone.”
This wasn’t what Pharaoh wanted to hear. “What can I do?” he asked. “God has shown you what to do. There will be seven years that will be very good prior to those bad years. So good that there will be extra food for everyone. So you should set aside a portion of each year’s harvest. That way you’ll have enough to get you through the lean years.”
Can Consuming Organic Food Grass Fed Beef and Cultured Milk Transform Your Life From Sickness and Disease Jordan Rubin Interview part 5
Can Consuming Organic Food Grass Fed Beef and Cultured Milk Transform Your Life From Sickness and Disease Jordan Rubin Interview part 5
There is something powerful about having the faith to take action. My action first required an eight-step walk from my bedroom to my parent’s closet to ask my mom to take my picture. Eight steps might not seem like much, but many times during my illness I would attempt to walk those eight steps only to wake up hours later with my face planted in the tile, glasses broken having blacked out due to my extreme anemia. Another step of faith I ventured on required a 2,300-mile trip to learn from a man I’d never met and follow principles that I had never heard of.
If you had asked me at any time during my illness—“Jordan, what can I pray for?”—I would have responded, I want my health back. I want my old life again.
I got my health back, all right, but I didn’t get my old life back. Instead, I received a new life and a vision, a passion, and a mission to see the health of this nation— and world—transformed one life at a time.
When I returned to South Florida, I was eager to share my testimony with anyone and everyone who would listen. Those who had seen me at my lowest were amazed to see me in good health.
You know how it goes: people tell other people and word of mouth gets around. One of those persons who heard about me was Dr. Morton Walker, a medical researcher and columnist for the Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients, a newsletter that publishes information about the latest news in alternative medicine written by researchers, health practitioners, and patients. Dr. Walker was keenly interested in talking to me after hearing how I had overcome Crohn’s disease and other ailments by following a biblically based health plan and supplementing my diet with probiotics.
Dr. Walker called me in the spring of 1997, and we had a friendly interview. Then he wrote a lengthy article about my battle back from “death’s door.” The story entitled “One Man’s Journey from Sickness to Health” was a detailed account of my two-year battle against incurable diseases and the health program that brought me life again.
I don’t know how many people read the Townsend Letter, but I’m not exaggerating when I say that several thousand people contacted me asking about the diet and the probiotics that helped me. Many of these letters and phone calls were from hurting folks with inflammatory bowel disease and other health challenges. They were desperate to know where and how they could eat the foods and acquire the probiotics that helped nourish me back to health.
I really believed I could help these people, and Lord knows I was touched by their stories of how illness had brought ruin on their lives. It was then, out of my parents’ friends’ garage, with my dad’s credit card and a dream, and based on my belief that food is the best medicine, that I began to formulate whole food nutritional supplements and started a company called Garden of Life®.
At the time of my interview with Dr. Walker, I was working in a health food store in Palm Beach Gardens, stocking shelves and earning a whopping $4.25 per hour. I didn’t really like what I was doing since stacking cans of organic black beans wasn’t exactly my passion. But each and every day, people would walk into the health food store, and I would hear and see them out of the corner of my eye, asking an associate for help with their child with autism, their sister with breast cancer, their mom with osteoporosis, or their dad with arthritis.
My colleagues didn’t always have an answer, but I—never being short on words—enjoyed offering my opinion whenever those questions came my way. Though I did not know all the answers, I remember striking up a conversation one time with a woman suffering from psoriasis, a skin disease marked by red, itchy, and scaly patches.
“Ma’am, I don’t know a whole lot about psoriasis,” I began, and then I reached into my back pocket and showed her a copy of my “before” picture. “What I do know is this: once I was dead and now I am alive. Would you like to know how?”
She nodded her head with a grateful look on her face, and then I told her my story. Often times, I was asked to describe what foods I ate or nutritional supplements I took. On other occasions when I struck up conversations within the store, I would recommend avoiding an entire food group or suggest an important book to read.
Amazing things happened in that health food store. I’d be stocking shelves when customers would walk down the aisle a couple of weeks later with big smiles on their faces. They would seek me out. Some would even be jumping up and down, but nearly all of them would hug me and say:
“Jordan, remember me? I’m the woman with the skin condition. Look at me now.”
“Jordan, remember me? I’m the one who had a child who couldn’t focus and couldn’t behave in school. Now he’s doing great in the classroom and is behaving well.”
“Jordan, remember me? I had terrible digestive problems, but now I’m symptom-free.”
Can Consuming Organic Food Grass Fed Beef and Cultured Milk Transform Your Life From Sickness and Disease Jordan Rubin Interview part 4
Can Consuming Organic Food Grass Fed Beef and Cultured Milk Transform Your Life From Sickness and Disease Jordan Rubin Interview part 4
Within a few weeks, I no longer resembled the proverbial ninety-eight-pound weakling that tough guys kicked sand on over at Mission Beach. As I walked up and down the boardwalk, I performed chin-ups and worked the monkey bars in the beachside parks. I slowly but surely regained my stamina. I was starting to feel like my old self again.
We pulled into the Boney’s parking lot at about a quarter to eight that morning— fifteen minutes before opening time. The spacious parking lot was nearly deserted, but I never took anything for granted.
“Follow me, guys.”
I led them toward the front door, which was still locked. I leaned against the glass and cupped my hands over my eyes. Then I saw him—Matt!
Matt was the dairy guy at Boney’s—and my new best friend. Shortly after I purchased my motor home and began camping out near the Pacific Ocean, I quickly found out that Boney’s was my best bet to find cultured dairy and organic meat. Deliveries, however, were sporadic, and it wasn’t uncommon for Boney’s to sell out of their shipment of cultured dairy products within an hour of opening. Sometimes Matt stashed away a few cartons in the back for me, but I couldn’t count on that.
Since I was pounding at least two quarts of cultured dairy every day—and could keep only a two-day supply on hand in my ice chest—this presented a problem. I counted on a regular supply of cultured dairy to provide the proteins, vitamins, minerals, probiotics, and healthy fats that helped me tremendously with my digestion, my immune system, and my weight gain. If Boney’s was out of cultured dairy, then I could check two other stores in San Diego, but both were a good half-hour drive from Pacific Beach.
Matt looked up from inside the closed store and noticed me waiting outside. He smiled and waved back, then shot me a thumb’s up. The cultured dairy had arrived that morning.
“It’s going to be a good day, guys,” I said. Then I explained to Kenny and Jason why Matt was smiling.
I purchased eight quarts of cultured dairy that morning, as well as two bags of ice for my cooler, an assortment of fruits and veggies, and dinner that evening—wild sockeye salmon. That would be enough to keep three young guys fed and happy.
We hung out at the beach the rest of the day, and I can remember gazing at the horizon and thinking some deep thoughts. I don’t know if my reflections were prompted by having two longtime friends come and show their support by visiting me in San Diego, or whether I was feeling optimistic about the times ahead. Because I was going to have a future, thanks to my new biblically based diet and the organic “living” foods I was eating.
But I already knew from personal experience that the foods fueling my recovery weren’t always available, and the thought of not having access to these healthy organic foods some day gave me pause. That afternoon, something in my heart stirred for the first time. I knew it sounded crazy, but I could not deny the feeling in my gut.
While gazing out at the blue Pacific, I decided that one day I would have my own ranches and farms where I could grow and raise these powerful foods for myself, my future family, and my friends and loved ones. I can remember that feeling like it was yesterday.
Keep in mind, I was a penniless ex-college student still dependent upon my parents when this thought formed in my mind. I was just twenty years old with no college degree, no opportunities on the horizon, and no job. But the thought was so real that I decided to tell Kenny and Jason what I was thinking— that one day I would raise and grow my own food, go beyond organic with uncompromised quality, and provide people everywhere with foods and beverages of biblical quality.
“Awesome,” Kenny said. “If anyone can do it, you can.”
Jason thought it was great, too. “You be sure to remember me when you start this ranch and produce these products because I want to be there with you when it happens.”
We serve an amazing God whose nature is to give us immeasurably more than we can ever ask or imagine. Today, sixteen years later, Kenny and Jason are both key members of the Beyond Organic team, but I’m getting ahead of my story.
The fact is, even though I had this desire to raise and grow my own food that day in San Diego, my imagination wasn’t nearly big enough to envision what God had lying ahead for me.
But the first thing God did was to complete His healing of my body during my forty days in San Diego. I was physically reborn and gained twenty-nine pounds during that time.
Considering my diseases were considered medically “incurable,” and with what I’d been through for nearly two years, this was an absolute miracle.